LinkedIn Town Hall on Racial Inequality Takes a Wrong Turn Due to Anonymous Comments

CEO Ryan Roslansky issued a quick response

LinkedIn held a town-hall meeting via videoconferencing platform BlueJeans earlier this week to address racial inequity, but its decision to allow anonymous questions from employees backfired in a big way.

Comments from the town hall were shared with Maxwell Tani of The Daily Beast, prompting a quick response in the professional network’s Pulse section from CEO Ryan Roslansky.

Roslansky said in his email to employees, which he shared via LinkedIn Pulse, “Those of us in presenter mode weren’t able to track the comments in real-time—I am very sorry, and that won’t happen again.

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